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Chart of Common Ideas
SYNTHESIS: Chart of Common Ideas
| SOURCE | MAIN IDEA (THESIS) | MAIN POINTS (page) | EXAMPLES (page) |
| Yuval Harari "Will Technology Help Us Become Immortal" YouTube | Artificial intelligence will make workers a useless class who are no longer employed or employable. | Humans could be replaced Man will start to merge with machine Billions pushed out of job market Decision-making shifts from humans to algorithms Who owns data, personal and biometric? Economic/military perspective: need intelligence, not consciousness Entities will be more intelligent that people Kids today may not have jobs in 2050; we do not know what to teach them so that they will be relevant | -Google's Calico: solve problem of death, investing billions -driverless cars can eliminate taxi drivers |
| Lee Cowan "Universal Basic Income: Will It Work" CBS Sunday Morning
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| Carolyn Mathas "2030--Ray Kurzweil's Predictions or Bill Joy's Fears" pp. 374-76 | One futurist thinks that we will become godlike, while another see the dangers when AI surpasses human intelligence. | medical cures/treatment 374; human meddling 374; brains on computers 374; attraction--curing diseases and living longer than 80 years 375; intellectual weaponry 375; Kurzweil--jobs going away 375; non-biological 375; Joy--not enough jobs or skills 375; machines smarter 375; intelligence gap 376; sterilization 376; hackers in 2016 376 | -we can replicate virus that killed 50 million in 1918 -driverless cars have fewer accidents |
| Scott Santens "Robots Will Take Your Job; Will They Guarantee Your Income?" pp. 407-410 |
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| "Automation and Anxiety" pp. 413-419
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